TRACS Errors for Mixed Households with Prorated Assistance

ICAP Assistant Director, Linda Guyder, reported a TRACS programming error related to mixed households (those with both citizenship-eligible members and ineligible non-citizens).

TRACS is miscalculating the proration. If you receive any TRACS errors for certs like this, check the tenant certification in HUD’s Secure System/TRACS/Tenant/Tenant Certification Query. The Assistance Payment (AP) plus the Total Tenant Payment (TTP) should equal the Gross Rent. If it does not, then TRACS has miscalculated the 50059 and you can safely ignore the TRACS error message you have received.

The TRACS programming team has located the problem and submitted a request for approval to make the required code change. The fix should be in the next scheduled TRACS release in May 2014.